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Honda PCX Electric

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Honda announced new electric and hybrid versions of its PCX scooters at the 2018 Tokyo Motor Show. Both are scheduled to go on sale as 2018 models in Asia, including Japan.

The PCX ELECTRIC is an electric scooter equipped with a high-output motor developed independently by Honda, as well as the Honda Mobile Power Pack, a detachable mobile battery pack. Where there’s no charging station available, you simply whip the batteries out and bring them to the electricity.

The most important part of the whole idea; the Mobile Power Pack Exchanger Concept.

This is basically a vending machine for fully-charged battery packs. Slide your empty one into one slot and, presumably after you’ve swiped a credit card, it will dispense a fully-charged replacement. The idea is that they can be positioned, like vending machines, on street corners anywhere in the world.